3 men arrested after kidnap victim pleads with Belchertown resident to give him shelter

BELCHERTOWN - Three men are being held on bail in connection with an Oct. 2 incident in which a man was tied up and interrogated, according to court documents.

While most of the documents related to the case in Eastern Hampshire District Court have been impounded, a probable cause statement said that a Federal Street resident called police shortly after 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 2 and told police there was man at his door bleeding from the head and saying he had been kidnapped.

"He was screaming 'You've got to let me in. There's somebody after me. I've been held hostage next door for a couple of days. My hands are handcuffed,'" according to the statement from Belchertown police.

The man pointed to another man walking down the street and said he was the man who had taken him hostage, according to police. When police arrived on scene, they found man who said he had been tied up, who was not identified, and another man, walking on Metacomet Street about a quarter-mile from where the person who called police lived, documents state.

One man told police he was "the victim in this," while the other told police he had a gun and reached into his waistband and pulled it out, according to the report.

Man who had been tied up was taken to Mary Lane Hospital in Ware for treatment. He told police he had been lured to the Federal Street resident the night before where he was handcuffed, his feet were bound together and he was held at knife and gunpoint while being interrogated through the night and into the early morning hours. He was finally able to escape after noon, according to court documents.

Cameron C. Andrade, 25, of 2120 Phillips Road, New Bedford, was arraigned Oct. 3 and ordered held on $500,000 surety or $50,000 cash bail. He pleaded innocent to charges of possession of marijuana, kidnapping with a firearm, carrying a firearm without a license and carrying a loaded firearm without a license.

Finn J. O'Brien, 31, of 1852 Frontier Road, Salt Lake City, Utah, was arrested in Salt Lake on a warrant and arraigned on Tuesday. He was ordered held on $1 million cash bail by Judge Maureen E. Walsh who wrote in court documents that O'Brien "appears to be involved in large scale drug distribution and has access to cash."

Walsh noted there was evidence O'Brien intended to flee to Ireland, that he claimed he had no identification, and that there is evidence he has "resources from drug sales in other states."